Heinrich Brandes

(Hans) Heinrich (Georg ) Brandes ( * May 23, 1803 in Bortfeld, † October 6, 1868 in Braunschweig ) was a German painter.

Life and work

Brandes was a student at the Munich Academy from 1823 to 1825 and worked there as a teacher until 1830.

In Rome, he stayed to study from 1830 to 1832. Lived in Brunswick and he was from 1832 primarily as a landscape and portrait painter a name. As gallery inspector it was part of his duties, to take care of the conservation status of works of art in the Ducal paintings collections. So he had uncovered and restored the found in Brunswick Cathedral 1845 medieval murals. Following the restoration of fire painted in 1861 from the northern transept. "The combination of freelance artistic work and restoration was quite typical for this time. Restoration has not yet been understood as a scientific activity, but as craft work, which required artistic sensibility and extensive knowledge of the ancient art. For that time the restoration methods of Heinrich were Brandes very progressive. "

His oil painting The Colosseum in Rome was in 1931 exhibited at the Munich Glass Palace with other works by German Romantic painting and the fire fell on June 6 to the victim.

Brandes lived until his death in Braunschweig.